75 years celebrated in style
The core values of Our Lady of the Rosary School, Waiwhetu, were highlighted at its 75th Jubilee marked on 9 – 11 March.
Author: wmc
New classrooms take the high road
An epic journey from Nelson to Westport marked the start of life for a new classroom for St Canice’s primary school on 1 February this year.
Refugee centre honours former slave
The Bakhita Training Centre for refugees was opened last month in Upper Hutt. The centre’s main aim is to educate parents and help them achieve NZQA basic computer skills and participate in the ESOL programme.
More elderly seeking a listening ear
Elderly people are seeking counselling in increasing numbers as they try to deal with an isolation that comes with a faster pace of life for the people around them.
Helping people to claim what is theirs
‘People would need to seek advice before applying for any benefit assistance, because they don’t know what they could miss out on,’ says Teresa Homan of Upper Hutt.
Church left with mess when WINZ gets it wrong
Caritas is opposing proposals in the new Social Security legislation which would effectively transfer the onus of responsibility for identifying correct benefit entitlements from the Department of Work and Income (WINZ) to beneficiaries themselves.
Human rights the focus of PN ecumenical service
Sikhs, Muslims, Christians, Buddhists and people from various other faiths met on common ground – the Cathedral of the Holy Spirit – to mark the International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, 21 March.
Refugee triumphs in fourth language
Being awarded a certificate in English for Speakers of Other Languages was a huge achievement for Tseheinesh Kahsay Woreita of Tigray and has spurred her on to more study. Tseheinesh arrived in New Zealand in 1998 after spending 15 years in a Sudanese refugee camp and before that, walking for eight days with a young child to escape her embattled country.
Easter’s resurrection always and everywhere
My crash to the floor brought Patricia and Barbara, two community members hurrying to the kitchen (even neighbours heard the noise). The 111 call centre operator gave CPR [cardiac pulmonary resuscitation] instructions after listening through the phone to my struggle to breathe. Two ambulances and a fire engine arrived within a minute of being dispatched. Suddenly there were six men and their emergency equipment in our kitchen. Although they applied the ‘paddles’ restarting my heart, the paramedics said it didn’t look good.
You can blame it on Adam and even on Eve
There are not too many of us who think humans are made from clay or from a rib, and there are sound, but not proved reasons, to question whether there was only a pair of human beings or many at the origins of humanity, beginnings marked by the primitive, rather than as beings gifted with wisdom and perfection.